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Posts Tagged with ‘structure’

  • The biggest synopsis mistake that writers make

    11 Feb 2015

    THE BIGGEST SYNOPSIS MISTAKE I see hundreds of treatments and synopses and most have clearly been slaved over by their…

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  • Use the Bake Off rule to improve your scripts

    19 Aug 2014

    Bake Off is back. But is there something we can learn from the series’ success? Aside from how to bake a…

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  • The Story of Structure: Creating Story Legs part 2

    11 Jun 2014

    The concluding part from guest blogger Yvonne Grace on story structure for TV series and serials, Creating Story Legs. Yvonne…

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  • The Structure of Story. Creating Story Legs Part 1

    09 Jun 2014

    Today we have the first of a fascinating two-part post by guest blogger Yvonne Grace on story structure for TV…

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  • What the World Cup taught me about screenwriting

    04 Jun 2014

    I have to confess: much of what I know about life, let alone screenwriting, has come from football, and in…

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  • Five things they don’t tell you about screenplay structure

    25 Apr 2014

    There’s a great deal of hot air talked about screenplay structure – much more than about any other area of…

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  • How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment

    13 Sep 2011

    Most people hate writing treatments. Not me, I love them. This is how I used a treatment to hook a top star comedian and the BBC in just five pages - and how you can too.

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  • A Clever, Sneaky Way To Hide Exposition

    26 May 2011

    The ability to handle exposition really sorts the professionals from the wannabes, and I'm going to share one of my top exposition techniques with you here.

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  • Write as a Professional

    17 May 2011

    I'm busy planning the Euroscript Professional Screenwriting Mini-Summer School (June 24-26), which is devoted to helping TV and cinema screenwriters develop their skills to a higher professional level  - and I've been asking myself: what is it that makes the difference between a professional script and one that isn't?

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  • Canaletto, Gaugin, Cezanne, Dickens and Screenwriting

    26 Jan 2011

    I managed to get to three  of the biggest exhibitions in town this January – Canaletto, Gaugin, Cezanne – and…

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